Police are promising "new information" on the Police Ten 7 show tomorrow night about the disappearance of Levin man Palmira Macdonald.

Suspected gang members raided serial burglar Luke Reich's home looking for stolen firearms while he was on remand in jail, The Star can reveal.

A police officer has been shot in the head after he took a wrong turn and entered a slum run by drug gangs in Rio de Janeiro.

A public tip-off to police days after the fatal shooting of George Taiaroa suggested a gang may have been involved in the stop-go operator's death.

John Key denies that the fight against meth is being lost but importations are up from countries where the drug is cheap, as gangs can make profit.

Removing someone like Ngāpari Nui from his voluntary role at Whanganui Prison will do nothing to bring down the "shameful" rate

Judith Collins' decision to suspend Ngapari Nui's voluntary work in Whanganui Prison could have far-reaching consequences, crime and

Police are on the lookout for a patched Hells Angels gang member.

A gang member was able to legally buy 18 high-powered firearms before police cottoned on - and now the cache has vanished.

A New Zealand criminologist says this country's "well-established" Asian gangs are usually tight-lipped about crime because they are fiercely loyal to each other.

Mike Hosking says gangs are a massive, multi-generational problem that are dangerously close to being in the 'too hard' basket.

Queensland police fear a fresh outbreak of violence on the Glitter Strip after the Mongrel Mob launched a Gold Coast chapter.

On the day he was fatally shot, a woman pleaded with East Coast Mangu Kaha gang boss Tumanako Tauhore to resolve his differences with her partner, the High Court at Gisborne has heard.

The fatal shooting of the president of Black Power-affiliated was murder, Crown prosecutors told a jury in a packed High Court at Gisborne.

COMMENT: The police have been deemed me unfit to undertake crime research because I know criminals, writes Dr Jarrod Gilbert.

Whanganui could be inundated with Black Power members this weekend, as gang associates arrive for the city chapter leader's tangi.

An estimated 400 Mongrel Mob members will descend on a paddock in Te Aute today to celebrate the gang's 50th anniversary.

An increasing number of at-risk prisoners are being put in segregation.

A group of Mongrel Mob members have been jailed for at least four years as a judge rejected the explanation they were performing a community service.

Bail has been denied for a 56-year-old man arrested after a drug bust linked to the Head Hunters gang.

Fears government systems and services have been turned to the gang's purposes.

The focus of a major police operation to seize $4m in cars, cash and property, but who are the Head Hunters?

Police will not fight a judge's decision to throw out criminal charges against gangsters after a botched undercover investigation.

A Mongrel Mob gang member who ran down and killed a police officer in a stolen car has been denied parole.

A High Court judge suggested the police “probably” broke the law by faking a prosecution against an undercover officer to boost his credibility with a gang.

In bikie club culture where loyalty and territory are highly valued, disagreements can too easily boil over, writes Jarrod Gilbert.

Seven people have been arrested in Kaikohe as part of a crack down on gangs in the area, police say.

Two men were arrested after gang-related disorder in Ashburton yesterday.

The Dunedin Notorious Mongrel Mob is distancing itself from a plan to allow gang members to compete for the city's green space contracts.